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Autism treatment: Science hijacked to support alternative therapies

May 13, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

Dr. Carlos Pardo was trying to head off trouble. The Johns Hopkins neurologist and his colleagues had autopsied the brains of people with autism who died in accidents and found...

Autism therapies can get undeserved credit

June 16, 2018 at 8:39 p.m.

Sara DiFucci says she vividly remembers the day a pediatrician said her daughter, then a preschooler, could wind up in a group home later in life. She was devastated. "I...

Risky alternative therapies for autism have little basis in science

June 18, 2018 at 11:09 p.m.

James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed...

‘I really fooled myself,’ admits dad, doctor

August 22, 2021 at 9:45 a.m.

Parents often swear their children with autism get better while they are undergoing alternative therapies. Sara DiFucci says she vividly remembers the day a developmental pediatrician said her daughter, then...

Autism’s risky experiments

August 22, 2021 at 10:01 a.m.

James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed...

Risky alternative therapies for autism have little basis in science

August 22, 2021 at 6:38 p.m.

James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed...

From the archives: Autism’s risky experiments

August 22, 2021 at 10:03 a.m.

James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed...

Risky alternative therapies for autism have little basis in science

May 13, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed...

2 more babies die in recalled bassinets

August 22, 2021 at 9:19 a.m.

Two more babies have died in recalled bassinets that were the subject of a baiduhai investigation, and federal safety regulators are again pleading with families to return the products....

Dr. Peter Rosi places blame on some parents for their babies’ deaths

June 1, 2019 at 5:13 a.m.

Dr. Peter Rosi, the longest-serving physician in Mayer Eisenstein's practice, says he is proud that he approaches medicine "the way obstetrics was taught 50 and 100 years ago." The fact...